Location: Washington, D.C.

The article, “Robert Kennedy Seen Undecided,” published in the New York Times on April 26, 1964 showcased both the tremendous interest and lack of information on the intentions of both Kennedy and Johnson. New York Times reporter Wallace Turner wrote, “The other surviving brother in the family, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts has told his friends that he doubts seriously if Robert...

The Burlingame Treaty between the United States and China guaranteed the right of Chinese and US citizens to immigrate between the two countries and outright rejected any attempts to restrict this immigration. In 1875 Chae Chan Ping, a Chinese laborer, immigrated to the United States, protected by the provisions of this treaty. Seven years later Congress, under intense pressure from labor unions...

Persecution in the United States during the Cold War is often only thought of as pertaining to alleged Communist sympathizers; however less publicized was the discrimination faced by homosexuals during this period. Already a time of great turmoil and uncertainty throughout America, McCarthy’s time in Senate was especially volatile for the homosexual community as investigations and interrogations...

Hiram Ulysses Grant, was born in Point Pleasant Ohio. He went to the military academy of West Point where, due to an administrative error, his name was put in as Ulysses S. Grant and his classmates began calling him Sam. Graduating 21st in a class of 39 he was not an exceptional student. Indeed, he was not expected to become the commander of the Army of the Potomac...

“I mean what law can you pass to do anything about police power in the community of Birmingham? There is nothing we can do. The fact of the matter is that Birmingham is in worse shape than any other city in the United States and it’s been that way for a year and a half.” John F. Kennedy gave this statement on May 4, 1963 to twenty members of the organization, Americans...

In the fourth year of the American Civil War, the country found itself in a pivotal moment in history. With no certainty of how long the nation would remain engaged in a bloody stalemate, the American citizens had the power to steer themselves out of political, militant, social and economic unrest. The Election of 1864 poised the Confederacy-backed Democratic Party against Republican and...

Abraham Lincoln is sometimes viewed as a “bleeding heart” because he pardoned, commuted, or delayed sentencing for hundreds of soldiers sentenced to death for desertion or absenteeism. He soon earned a reputation among political leaders and military commanders for being “soft” on discipline by chronically interfering with military executions. Lincoln’s leniency did not go unnoticed or...

President Lincoln’s use of telegrams revealed a man ahead of the 1860s technological times. He is recognized as an innovator, communicator, and commander of the telegraph. Lincoln has been named writer of war, micromanager, and technophile. After analyzing a small collection of 10 telegrams dated from April 5, 1864 to February 15, 1865 one may question the argument...

On December 11, 1958, John F. Kennedy a Democratic Presidential candidate composed a personal letter to Eleanor Roosevelt. He wrote, “I note from the press that on last Sunday afternoon, December 7, on the ABC television program College News Conference, you stated…that Senator Kennedy’s ‘father has been spending oodles of money all over the country and probably paid representatives in every...

Jackie Kennedy sat down with historian, and friend, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., less than for months after his death, to discuss her life with JFK. The recordings of these conversations cover of the politics and the people she encountered during her marriage, as well as JFK as a person. While discussing the early years of her marriage to John, she states that “Daddy told him, keep her riding...